What all linguists should know
About sign languages
Introducing sign language (socio-)linguistics onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/josl.12522
Frequently asked questions about sign languages: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/dcal/sign-language-facts/faqs
Are signed languages "real" languages? http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.517.3628&rep=rep1&type=pdf
Sign languages: An overview http://sandlersignlab.haifa.ac.il/html/html_eng/pdf/Sign_Language_Overview_ELL2.pdf
What is sign language? https://www.linguisticsociety.org/sites/default/files/Sign_Language.pdf
What is sign language? https://theconversation.com/explainer-what-is-sign-language-21453
How are sign languages acquired? https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev-linguistics-043020-092357
How many sign languages are there? https://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/sign1238
About deaf linguists/scholars working with signing communities
A list of resources for working with deaf researchers and signing communities https://www.juliehochgesang.com/deafling/
Some introductory texts on the linguistics of sign languages
Hill, J.C., Lillo-Martin, D.C., & Wood, S. K. (2019). Sign languages: Structures and contexts. London & New York: Routledge.
Baker, A., van den Bogaerde, B., Pfau, R., & Schermer, T. (Eds.,) (2016). The linguistics of sign languages: An introduction. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
Johnston, T. & Schembri, A. (2007) Australian Sign Language (Auslan): An introduction to sign language linguistics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Sutton-Spence, R. & Woll, B. (1999). The linguistics of British Sign Language: An introduction. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
About language deprivation in deaf children
Deaf children need language, not (just) speech https://doi.org/10.1177/0142723719834102
Ensuring language acquisition for deaf children: What linguists can do https://www.linguisticsociety.org/sites/default/files/01e_90.2Humphries.pdf
Sign languages are different from signed systems
Second verse, same as the first: On the use of signing systems in modern interventions for deaf and hard of hearing children in the USA https://doi.org/10.1080/14643154.2020.1792071
An in-progress bibliography of some under-represented issues in sign language research:
https://sites.google.com/view/linasigns/bibliography
Towards a more inclusive linguistics:
https://inclusivepedagogyling.hum.uchicago.edu/presentation-recordings/